Beschrijving
International Dublin Literary Award-winning Gerbrand Bakker gives voice to the visceral power of family ties in a novel brimming with Knausgaardian detail
When his wife tells him she is pregnant, Cornelis packs his bags and boards a plane–a day later he is dead. Now grown, Simon roams the barbershop his father left him, honing razors and polishing mirrors in a shop marked FERMÉ. He sees his customers one by one, massaging scalps and shaving throats in an intimate, physical dance. There’s only one customer whose presence in Simon’s impeccable shop breaks this silent routine: the writer. Trimming the fine tips of the writer’s eyebrows, Simon loses himself in a parallel life–one where he lives and grows old with the writer, shaping a crewcut around an \
